Indian centrally administered schools â Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) and Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) â are hit by more than 12,000 vacant teacher positions. Union State Education Minister Jayant Chaudhary revealed this in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on July 23, 2025.
7,765 are in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and 4,323 in Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), the education ministry informed. A total of 12,088 central school teacher posts have thus gone vacant.
REASONS FOR TEACHER SHORTAGE
The Minister attributed the posts accumulation to quite a number of reasons - opening of fresh schools, retirements, promotion, transfers, resignation and some other administrative causes.
"Vacant teaching posts are filled up on some grounds like opening of new school, retirement, promotion, and transfer," he said and repeated.
RECRUITMENT PROCESS BEGINS
Recruitment process has been awarded by government. Recruitment is being done according to the existing norms of recruitment of KVS and NVS.
Ad-hoc teachers are being kept on ad-hoc basis so that there would never be any lack of teaching till regular appointments.
OTHER ORGANISATIONS ALSO ARE-awaiting staff shortages
It is not KVS and NVS alone. Even the education administration itself such as the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has 143 Group A academic posts vacant.
The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) also is short of 60 officials.
The ministry is employing all the middle means to expedite teacher appointments and not allow students' learning to be delayed.
Kendriya, Navodaya schools hit by more than 12,000 vacant teacher positions
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